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Anime Mid-Atlantic has announced on their web site that the Hyatt Regency Crystal City double-booked the hotel on that weekend and has decided to cancel their contract. As a result, the convention will be held at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Virginia Beach.

AniZona has announced that their 2008 convention has been canceled, but they hope to return in 2009. The cancellation is a result of not being able to get a minimum of 75 hotel rooms booked at the hotel by a December 16th deadline.

Over the weekend, the Pennsylvania Convention Center had posted on their web site that TandokuCon was canceled. The notice has since been removed. A notice clarifying that the convention is not canceled has been posted on TandokuCon's web site. We will keep everyone posted if we hear any other news. Updates within...

AnimeCons.com has a special forum dedicated to posting of open staff positions at various conventions. If your convention is looking for new staff, post some job descriptions. If you want to join staff at a con, go apply! All the details are in our Staff Recruitment forum.

The CUE Center for Missing Persons and the McKeathan family are requesting the public's help in the search for Michael McKeithan, a North Carolina teen who disappeared Sunday night following Animazement in Durham, NC.

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MomoCon in Atlanta, Georgia reportedly shut down nine hours early on Sunday morning. Multiple unconfirmed reports state some people attempted to set off fireworks inside the building where the convention was being held.

AnimeCons.com is proud to announce the release of its new advertising program. Interested advertisers are welcome to review our advertising information. Anime convention organizers may be especially interested in our ad swap program in which we will run your convention's banner advertising for up to three months in exchange for advertising AnimeCons.com at your convention.

The American Anime Awards, an event to be held at New York Comic Con, have added two manga titles to their ballot. "The nominations were submitted prior to when the ballot went live but were inadvertently left off, an error which we deeply regret."